Michael Santo of RealTechNews writes:
Earlier I posted a story from ComputerWorld refuting the “kill switch” scenario which had been posted earlier on the Web… however, a friend who read my article took a closer look at the ComputerWorld article than I did, and pointed out something.
Through its spokeswoman, Microsoft said that “80% of all WGA validation failures are due to unauthorized use of leaked or stolen volume license keys.”
My friend’s math is good, and as such it’s obvious that means that 20% of the validations failures are NOT due to leaked or stolen volume license keys. A little search around the Web and I found that Ed Bott, who proposed the “kill switch” theory, did the math as well.
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